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In recent years (and decades) we have seen bold, invasive military action promoted in the name of securing our “national interests”. Ron Paul, in his excellent speech (which you must read if you’ve yet to do […]

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This week I had the opportunity to watch The Secret with some co-workers. My commentary can be best summarized with the following verse:
And he beheld Satan; and he had a great chain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with darkness; and he looked up and laughed, […]

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Cross-posted at Blogger of Jared for our Easter Symposium.

As this Easter season approaches I find myself pondering the daily Jesus. Not so much the Jesus whose miracles and teachings are recorded in holy writ—I’m thinking of the Jesus we might learn of were we able to read “many other things”:
And there are also many […]

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For those of you who have yet to hear, Dick Cheney offered to speak at BYU’s commencement proceedings, and the board of trustees for BYU has accepted. No doubt Cheney’s team is fully aware that Provo is the only place in the nation he might currently receive a largely pleasant welcome. More […]

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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. (George Orwell, 1984, p. 263)
Faithful readers of my […]

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And wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord! And their works are in the dark; and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us? (2 Ne. 27:27)
There is nothing which is secret save it shall be revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be […]

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The following is a user-submitted post (from Mother dearest). The views expressed in this blog post are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the blog’s owner, her son.

I wanted to write a blog today for Connor’s blog. Frankly, his blog needs it…
I just want […]

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That is all.
Read quotes about “life” on

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And they did murmur because they knew not the dealings of that God who had created them. (1 Ne. 2:12)
The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary defines the verb ‘murmur’ as “To grumble; to complain; to utter complaints in a low, half articulated voice; to utter sullen discontent;”
Nephi instructs us in the above passage that murmuring […]

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I received an email from a visitor to my blog yesterday, whose name apparently is “MORMONISM IS A LIE”.
MORMONISM’s profound message was:
do some real research and leave that church.
Such awe-inspiring counsel that surely rivals the musings of the great philosophers!
Should you care to seek more pearls of wisdom from so illuminated a mind, his […]

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A recent post spurred a discussion on prophetic silence with regard to politics. It is obvious that Church leaders in previous decades (and centuries, for that matter) were far more outspoken in a variety of political matters, not just those dealing with morality.
This issue is one I have repeatedly considered in previous […]

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Americans, content with their American Idolism and bread and circuses, have largely fallen into what can best be labeled as an Obliviotocracy. Such a mentality is fostered when people fall into the common misconception (held by men throughout the ages and in different civilizations) that their elected leaders, wise and well-intentioned, will do the right […]

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